Well, I’m sure you don’t like the fact that they flew up like that becasue of the shotguns, but it worked to your advantage. We have fields full of them here in winter, too, and it’s a great sight when they all fly up together.

The peregrine falcon has a beady eye and is intent on dinner (or breakfast). We have them round here but don’t see them much – they have competition from sparrowhawks and much larger birds of prey such as buzzards and red kite.

What we don’t have (to my knowledge) is snow geese – how wonderful to see them. I hadn’t realised they were so compact – very short necks compared with other geese.

Snow geese come through the Finger Lakes, as well. The tops of Cayuga and Seneca Lakes, between them, there is a refuge, Montezuma, we go in the early spring and find them there. Thanks for the news from the Atlantic coast.